The Another Clock applet is an analogue clock similar to that in the CDE (Common Desktop Environment, an earlier UNIX desktop environment) panel. In its default state it is a small analogue clockface with no background around it. It was part of the gnome-core package up to October GNOME (gnome-core-1.0.53). It is now distributed in gnome-applets. This guide describes the version distributed in gnome-applets-1.1.2.
The AnotherClock applet was written by Iņigo Serna (<inigo@gazletan.bi.ehu.es>). Please report bugs in it to the GNOME bug tracking system. You can do this by following the guidelines on that site or by using bug-buddy from the command-line. For the package, put gnome-applets.
To add Another Clock to your panel, you can click mouse button 3 on an empty part of the panel and follow the sequence: Applets->Clocks->Another Clock or you can type the following command at a command line: another_clock_applet --activate-goad-server another_clock_applet
You don't need to do anything special to this clock. It will just sit on your panel and tell the time for you. Various options are available with the mouse:
Pressing mouse button 1 has no effect.
Holding down mouse button 2 allows you to move the clock about in the same way you move anything on the panel.
Pressing mouse button 3 brings up the standard choices available for appets, including a preferences menu explained below, and an About box.
The preferences dialogue box (which calls itself "Clock Settings" rather than preferences) is very simple. There are four colours that may be changed, and there is a checkbox.
This is currently greyed-out, but in the future it will be possible to adjust the colour of the clockface.
Clicking on the box containing the colour here will invoke the GNOME colourwheel which will let you change the colour of the hour needle. The default is a very pale grey.
Clicking on the box containing the colour here will invoke the GNOME colourwheel which will let you change the colour of the minute needle. The default is a very pale grey.
Clicking on the box containing the colour here will invoke the GNOME colourwheel which will let you change the colour of the second needle. The default is red.
Clicking on this checkbox lets you toggle whether the second needle is shown or not. It is shown by default.
You can't change the time through the clock properties. This is not really a bug; it's because you must be root to alter the time for the whole of the system, using the date command.
If you adjust the system clock backwards using the date command, the clock will stop working until the system time reaches the time the clock displays. It will start working normally then.